As the saying goes, the people take food as the sky, and the country is based on grain, in the Qin State, Guanzhong Xianyang specially set up a "Su Nei History" to manage the country's warehouse grain, it is said that Xianyang warehouse grain 100,000 stone, Liyang warehouse grain 20,000 stone.

The local counties have also set up granaries, which are managed by "cangs", and like engineers, cangsifers rank 200 stones, which is equivalent to the director of the county grain bureau in later generations.

Anlu County Warehouse is located in Guansi District, these circular grain storage silos are tightly protected by the wall, and county guards are also arranged to patrol inside and outside.

It is roughly divided into three areas: a silo for manuscripts, a barn for storing grain, and a rice silo for storing hulled rice and millet.

Between the barn and the rice barn, there was a long room, without walls, but with a tiled shed on top, under which rows of stone mortars were placed, and beside them were wooden pestles.

Every day, the barang would send the barn officials to take out hundreds of stones of newly harvested millet from the barn and transport it into the longhouse, so that the concubines serving sentences inside would turn it into brown rice and polished rice, and then transport it to the rice warehouse for storage.

In spring, summer, autumn and winter, regardless of cold or heat, these poor female prisoners had to constantly carry heavy pestles and pestles, and the food of the county officials and the rations of the front-line soldiers were all scooped out by them day after day.

If you can't finish your work, you can't rest, and many people have been working for a few years and their arms are about to be wasted. It is no wonder that "Gong" can be the same as the "Chengdan" served by men, and become the most talkative prison sentence.

On the first day of the lunar month, the concubines were still scolded by the cangzuo officials early in the morning and started the work of the rice. As prisoners, they were thinly dressed, and they couldn't eat the good rice themselves, so they naturally couldn't talk about any enthusiasm for work, but just numbly lifted and put down the wooden pestle, lifted it, and put it down again, which was very inefficient. Fortunately, it was winter, and the law was so generous that they only had to do two-thirds of the summer work each day.

But even so, it takes three or four hours to finish 2 stone millet every day, and the worst thing is that the concubine who is assigned to polish rice has to be finished from morning to night.

Just when hundreds of concubines were silent, working like corpses, a canazuo official suddenly arrived, ordered two adult concubines of similar size, and let them come out.

The two unkempt concubines came out of the line nervously, followed Cangzuo out of the shack, and came to the open space outside.

The concubines hurriedly bowed their heads, one was wondering if they had committed another crime, their faces were worried, and the other was guessing whether a family member had come to redeem themselves, and they were overjoyed......

As a result, they were only assigned new jobs, or Chunggu.

But the difference is that Cangzuo and the county engineer on the side asked two concubines, one to use an ordinary pestle and mortar, and the other to "step on the ground" with an instrument placed on the ground.

The second daughter had no choice but to be ordered to work, one held a wooden pestle, and the other constantly used the weight of her body to step on the wooden pole up and down......

Half an hour later, the engineer shouted to stop, and then couldn't wait to walk to the wooden bucket containing rice to personally check how much grain the second daughter had scooped.

"The pestle and mortar have been scooped for 3 buckets, and the pestle has been scooped...... 5 buckets! ”

He raised his head in surprise and questioned the two concubines, and sure enough, the one with the pestle and mortar was as tired as usual, and the one with the treadmill also wanted to say that he was tired, and he had a lot of rest, and was frightened by the officials viciously, so he told the truth that he was not tired in fact, and he could do it again.

Heifu's sister-in-law looked at the scene in front of him, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, he was an honest craftsman, and in the past, the biggest official he had ever seen in Lizhong was the township fighting eater who came to inspect. Now he has to stand in front of the two hundred stone officials, without Heifu by his side, he doesn't even dare to breathe, let alone speak, and he doesn't even dare to take a breath......

However, the engineer is cautious, and after discussing with Cang Qifu, the two decided to pick another pair of concubines to try.

So the heart of the sword was raised again, and he stared at the person who was making rice, for fear that the concubine who used the treadmill would be lazy, resulting in a small amount of rice being scooped out.

Another half an hour has passed, and the new results have come out, this time, the one with the pestle mortar is still only 3 and a half buckets, and the stepping mortar is 5 buckets and 5 liters!

The county engineer had no doubts in his heart, and he was immediately overjoyed.

"It's still unfamiliar to use and scoop so much, if you can be skilled, it's the same as what the black man recorded, and it's not a problem to lick 6 or 7 buckets in half an hour!"

The more the county engineer looks at this stepping stone, the more he likes it, the structure of this thing is simple, the materials are everywhere, and the cost must be cheap. As for the use, it is even more convenient, as soon as you learn it, half-grown children can also sit on it and cook rice.

"This thing is very much in line with the meaning of 'merit is supreme' in my country's "Work Law", I should immediately go and tell the county order!"

If this object is offered, it will definitely be praised, and the county engineer feels that the punishment he suffered last year for making the utensils that did not meet the specifications can be erased, and he can even accumulate some achievements!

The county engineer was thinking about it, and the barn man on the side was also smiling.

As an official in charge of grain, who better knows the usefulness of this thing than the barnman? Anlu has abundant land and is not short of grain, but the trouble is that the subordinate concubines are limited and the work efficiency is low. Therefore, it is often that there is not enough white rice, but I can only look at a large pile of millet and be anxious......

When you make money, you can't just give it to the official Guzi, right? The colleagues must not blacken their faces. When sending grain to the front line, you can't directly transport grain, do you have to let the soldiers have to cook rice for half an hour before the battle starts?

Now, this problem has been solved. If it can be popularized in the county, not only will the efficiency of ordinary farmers improve a lot, but the public will benefit the most. The hundreds of female convicts in Anlu County who were sentenced to "licking" all switched to stepping on the mill, how much more grain can they scoop every day? At least one stone!

Cangqifu calculated, twenty buckets of corn grain, can be scooped into ten buckets of corn. Ten buckets of rice can be scooped up six and two-thirds of the rice...... In this way, on the basis of the original, as long as he wants, he can at least make the county warehouse produce more than 10,000 stone rice every year!

"This is a great achievement, enough for me to win the first place in the county in next year's performance appraisal!"

Cang Qifu thought so, but his eyes met with the county engineer.

The county engineer smiled: "Thank you Cangqifu for your help, confirm the wonderful use of this thing, I should immediately report to the county order, and ask the craftsmen of the carpentry workshop to make a batch of ......."

Cang Qifu was not to be outdone: "It should be that I thanked the county engineer, this matter is related to Cangyu, within my authority, it is obviously under my control, or let me inform the county order!" ”

The county engineer's face suddenly stiffened, and he pointed to the whirlpool on the side and said: "Cangqifu, this is not right, this thing was sent by a hundred workers, he is under my control, if you want to snatch it, but you have exceeded your authority." ”

"The county engineer misunderstood."

Cang Qifu smiled and put his hand on the shoulder of the county engineer: "It's better like this, since this matter has something to do with you and me, why don't you report it together?" ”

The two of them were talking in a low voice, but he was embarrassed on the side, and he kept looking back, hoping that Heifu would come back soon, otherwise, what would he do if the two officials asked him later?

Sure enough, when the county engineer and the cangfu finished dividing the spoils, they began to turn back and ask him questions, but the stuffy gourd was dumbfounded and couldn't spit out a word.

"You hundreds...... I can't tell if you made this artifact or not. "The county engineer is very headache, don't ask specifically, how do they go to ask for credit? By the way, I also counted my own merits.

At this moment, in the courtyard of an official office not far from the county warehouse, there was a burst of exclamations, followed by continuous applause and admiration......

The little officials who were waiting on the side all turned their heads to look over there, and the county engineer and the barn clerk who shared the credit on the side also raised their heads, strange.

The courtyard is the office of the chief official, and it is quiet and unusual on weekdays, so what's wrong today?

After a while, an excited Kurazo official came over and told them what was going on.

"According to the usual practice, on the first day of the lunar month, the chief official Peng opened the hall to assess the officials, and there was only one public servant who was recruited by the county to be the pavilion chief, and the chief official Peng examined his twenty laws and answers, and this person actually answered all of them correctly!"

……

"Twenty questions are all right? So powerful! ”

The county engineer and the cangfu looked at each other, and the Qin State took the law as the discipline, but whoever is an official must know the law. When they were officials, they all had to pass the main official Peng Na Pass first, and respectively inspected the "Labor Law", "Jungong Law", "Cang Law", "Chuan Food Law" and so on related to their work.

Generally speaking, 20 questions and 14 questions are qualified, 167 questions are already good, and 189 questions are excellent.

As for all 20 questions? It probably takes a year or two to get one.

"Isn't that person a disciple of the Academy?" Cang Qifu asked, if it was a disciple of the academy who had studied the law for three years, it was still possible.

"It's just a village official, and I didn't know the law a month ago. By the way, he is the one who captured three thieves not long ago and worshiped him as a public servant, and he is well-known in the county! ”

"Is that him?"

At first hearing this, the county engineer immediately understood who it was, and he was embarrassed for more than an hour, and he didn't say a word, but he also shouted out in surprise.

"Is it Heifu?"

"Yes, it's called Heifu." Cangzuo said, pointing towards the door of the county warehouse: "Look! He's coming! ”

Everyone looked, but saw a burly young man striding towards this side, the soapcloth clothes that had been changed to crimson clothes, and a pair of walking bands on his feet. His hair was still wrapped in a brown wrap, but on his forehead, there was a touch of bright red silk like blood!

Hefu walked all the way, and the fighting officials on both sides gave him their hands one after another, and Heifu only responded with a flat courtesy.

When he walked in front of the county engineer and the cangfu, he no longer bowed as before, but folded his hands together and waved slightly at the two.

"The subordinates are late, and I hope the two superiors will not blame them."

The county engineer did not dare to be as lazy as he was when he first met him in the morning, and together with Cang Qifu, he bowed his hand slightly to Heifu and treated him with courtesy......

The head of the Qin State Pavilion is a fighting official, and there is no special official uniform, and the red silk clothes are its markers.

At this moment, Heifu is no longer an ordinary commoner, after passing the assessment of the main official, he is the chief of the Huyang Pavilion, and he is a "Qin official"!